Sonny's Dream

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Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone,
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your Daddy's a sailor, never comes home.
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Nights are so long, silence goes on,
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I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong.

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    Sonny lives on a farm, on a wide open space,
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    take off your shoes, stay out of the race.
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    Lay down your head, by the soft river bed,
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    Sonny always remembers the words Mamma said.

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Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone,
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your Daddy's a sailor, never comes home.
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Nights are so long, silence goes on,
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I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong.

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    Sonny works the land, though he's barely a man,
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    there's not much to do, but he does what he can.
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    He sits by the window of his room on the stairs,
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    watching the waves gently wash on the pier.

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    Many years have passed on, Sonny's old and alone,
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    his Daddy, the sailor, never came home.
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    Sometimes he wonders what his life might have been,
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    but from the grave Mamma still haunts his dreams.

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Sonny don't go away, I'm here all alone,
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your Daddy's a sailor, never comes home.
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Nights are so long, silence goes on,
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I'm feeling so tired and not all that strong.
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Sonny, don't go away.